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authorMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2009-03-25 14:09:02 +0100
committerMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2009-03-25 14:09:02 +0100
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NEWS: Document mark/trace list mode, interrupt reentrancy, reentrancy debug.
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This replaces any dwarf $variable expressions that could not be resolved
with literal numeric zeros, along with a warning message.
+- Both kernel markers and kernel tracepoint support argument listing
+ through stap -L 'kernel.mark("*")' or stap -L 'kernel.trace("*")'
+
+- Users can use -DINTERRUPTIBLE=0 to prevent interrupt reentrancy in
+ their script, at the cost of a bit more overhead to toggle the
+ interrupt mask.
+
+- Added reentrancy debugging. If stap is run with the arguments
+ "-t -DDEBUG_REENTRANCY", additional warnings will be printed for
+ every reentrancy event, including the probe points of the
+ resident and interloper probes.
+
* What's new in version 0.9
- Typecasting is now supported using the @cast operator. A script can